[Plugin] Status bar plugin issue when the status bar is at the top

[sagittarius-a]

Context

I was trying to swap the position of the status-bar and the tab-bar. To be more explicit, I wanted to:

• have the status-bar at the top, with a single line only (with the overview of the current mode only, without the Tip section)
• have the tab-bar at the bottom without further changes

Changes on my side

To do so, I changed the zellij-utils/assets/layouts/default.yaml file with the following content:

---
direction: Horizontal
parts:
  - direction: Vertical
    split_size:
      Fixed: 1
    run:
      plugin: target/wasm32-wasi/debug/status-bar.wasm
  - direction: Vertical
  - direction: Vertical
    split_size:
      Fixed: 2
    run:
      plugin: tab-bar

I also updated the status-bar plugin applying the following changes in order to disable the Tip section:

--- a/default-plugins/status-bar/src/main.rs
+++ b/default-plugins/status-bar/src/main.rs
@@ -169,6 +169,6 @@ impl ZellijPlugin for State {
                 println!("{}\u{1b}[48;5;{}m\u{1b}[0K", first_line, color);
             }
         }
-        println!("\u{1b}[m{}\u{1b}[0K", second_line);
+        // println!("\u{1b}[m{}\u{1b}[0K", second_line);
     }
 }

Bug description

As a result, I have the status-bar at the top but there is a noticeable split, which was not present with the tab-bar plugin, and the prompt is not displayed until I redraw it by issuing a command.

Questions

• Did I miss something in the status-bar plugin that directly solves the issue ?
• Is the status-bar designed to be at the bottom of the screen only ?

Basic information

• zellij version: commit f5734f2
• lines: 21
• cols: 115
• alacritty version: alacritty 0.8.0 (a1b13e68) (in the screenshot. Bug reproduced in other terms as well)

# Thanks

[TheLostLambda]

Hey @sagittarius-a ! Could you try swapping the 2 and 1 for the fixed split_sizes? That might resolve things?

[sagittarius-a]

Well it is a good start !

Now the prompt is ok and the split line is gone but there is still some visual glitch:

[TheLostLambda]

@sagittarius-a Thanks for giving that a try! I suspect the remaining issue may come from a bit of plugin code (I'm working on fixing the fact that this number is duplicated).

You could probably change both this and the height in the layout to 1 if you want to have a 1-line status bar.

Soon that number should only need changing in one place, but that might fix your issue?